Community special school

Meadow High School

Mixed · ages 11–19 · with sixth formHillingdon, London · Uxbridge UB8 3QUSchool website
Pupils on roll
305of 400 places
Free school meals
49.3%
Year 11 cohort 2025
36
Ofsted
School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next, 25 February 2025Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

Of the 39 pupils who finished Year 11 at Meadow High School in 2023, 0% stayed on in Meadow High School’s own sixth form (Hillingdon average 58%), 8% went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.

Meadow High School is a special school: its GCSE figures (Attainment 8 of 0.3, 0% with grade 5 or above in English and maths) are published by DfE for completeness and are not comparable with mainstream schools.

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Hillingdon and England.

Meadow High School
Hillingdon
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureMeadow High SchoolHillingdonEngland
Pupils in the cohort393,519607,348
Any sustained destination92%93%92%
Stayed in education92%90%86%
— school sixth form0%58%34%
— sixth form college0%2%13%
— further education college8%28%37%
— other education85%3%2%
Apprenticeship0%2%3%
Employment0%1%3%
No sustained destination5%4%6%
Destination unknown3%3%3%

Where students went after sixth form

Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.

No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.

GCSE results 2025

MeasureMeadow High SchoolHillingdonEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)0.347.846.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths0%50%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%69%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%53%41%
EBacc average point score0.024.354.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort58%28%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils0.037.334.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils0.751.950.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language28%46%19%

Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.

Subjects taken at GCSE

Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
Mathematics26%88%22%

Where Meadow High School is

Other secondary schools in Hillingdon are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Hillingdon’s allocation statistics.

Other secondary schools in Hillingdon

Bishopshalt School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,239 pupils

91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 58.7

Global Academy

University technical college · sixth form · 526 pupils

91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 30.8

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.